Tuesday, December 06, 2011

The Senduduk buds....

Senduduk is a wild flowers that grows well on the roadsides and in between rubber trees in Rubber Plantations. As a child we would eat the berries and get our mouth all colored purple. Growing up in the forties and the fifties kids make their own toys and one of it is the bamboo gun. The buds of the Senduduk as seen above are use as bullets for the gun. The above image was taken with a Micro Lens. Enjoy it folks.

6 comments:

Salam Pak Idrus or rather Tuan Haji Idrus. I feel very uneasy to address you as Pak Idrus cos you are my former boss in JBS WPKL in the 80s. Actually I have been following your blog for quite sometimes. Buah senduduk is one of my favourite during my young days besides buah Letup-Letup & buah Kemunting which are so rare in kampung areas nowadays.I really don't know that the buah senduduk can be used as bullets with bamboo gun or bedil buluh cos during our days backed in the 60s we used buah cenderai. Anyway,I am glad to have written something here after being so malu-malu for years. Mudah2an Tuan Haji akan terus diberikan kesihatan yang terbaik serta limpahan rahmat dari Allah swt.

srisemantan, thanks for the visit and sharing your thoughts on the subject of this posting. Well at this age and with grand kids around I am happy to be address as Atok and in cyberspace as Pak Idrus.

I cannot recollect you so do please write to me using my email address which is at my blog. I am glad to get to meet you again and perhaps go for Lunch or a TT if you happens to live in the Kelang Valley. Anyway I travel often and if you live somewhere else we could meet too. So do write to me so that we could get connected again.

As for this Senduduk, this plant have always been part of our generation growing up period except for those whose growing up period was in the town. An example is Salehan Suru when I told him about this plant, he seem not to know at all. Later I found that he was brought up in Kampong Bahru KL.